Posted on 03/17/2012 9:27:07 AM PDT by brityank
Amazingly the author left out the Mormon issue. While no one will talk about it for fear of being called a bigot, a sizeable number of evangelicals will look at his campaign as a stepping stone to God-hood and just won’t vote for him. Even if that is 3% of the vote, that is the winning margin.
Don’t be too sure of that. Catholics puzzle me the way they vote.
I completely disagree. I think that conservatives are loudly expressing their preference for a non-Romney. However, they are more strongly non-Obama. The very people that are not supporting Romney will come out to vote against Obama no matter who the Republicans put up.
I pray.
Thank you, Brit
Mitt is not inevitable ping
Obama is not running against Romney. Obama needs to beat his record on the economy, not Romney. This is why Obama is going to lose. He can’t win against the deepening economic depression. Obama is toast.
You understand. Obama can’t beat the economy. It is that simple.
All of this is not to say I want Romney. I don’t. But since he is being anointed by the GOP country club socialist-light establishment, we are stuck with him. My only hope for this nation is that Romney picks Palin for a running mate, and then president Romney dies a natural premature death, yielding president Palin.
Other than that, we are pretty doomed, but it won’t be from a 2nd Obama administration.
I will admit, most nightmares I have ever had are far less terrifying than a 2nd Obama administration if he were to win. If he is this raw in pushing socialism when he is facing re-election, he is capable of ANYTHING as a lame duck. Very terrifying.
I am convinced that America as we knew it cannot possibly survive a 2nd Obama administration. We barely survived 2 under rapist Clinton. We would not survive a 2nd under Obama, and time may prove we can’t survive Obama’s first.
Certainly we can’t survive Obamacare, which came about on Obama’s first. Even when the GOP retakes the Senate in 2012, it won’t matter unless we have a GOP president to sign a legislative repeal of Obamacare.
It doesn’t have to work well. A massive release will drop the price enough that the population will feel relief far in excess of reality and will credit the kenyan with it. The tiny release last year accomplished that much. It was only temporary but, hey, it only has to last until the day after the election. Last years release was surely a test run.
Destroyed from within, as V.I. Lenin predicted nearly a century ago; the Americna people are ultimately the culprits that we keep trying to excuse.
If Romney's Superpac does to obama what it has done to Gingrich, he will run the table in the Fall. If they falter and go wobbly, we all are done for. And yes, for the record I support Newt but would prefer Romney to obama by a serious margin.
So many defeatists on our side, you can all go and **** yourself...
Look back to last year. He did it and it worked. It lasted a couple of months. That is as long as he needs to get through an election. The price doesn’t have to go down more than 30 cents or so from wherever it is. He can do that. There is a LOT of immediate money in commodities. The short time frame of a Strategic Reserve release would affect that portion of the market and thus the price of oil for that shirt term. Six months is plenty to affect the election. Six months can be done.
30 cents decrease would not do it... not by any way, shape or form. The price of gas has to drop below $ 3.00 for it to have any positive effect on voters and the release of the strategic oil reserves would not do it.
We shall see.Getting below $3 may do it for you. Getting it below $2 won’t do it for me but, judging from the people I meet- and there are a lot of those in this resort town-, 30 cents and dropping a couple more cents in October will do it for most.
Romney is about as electable as Ford, dole, or McCain.
The big GOP wins of recent years — 1980, 1994, and 2010 — were achieved by running as conservatives. That’s what the party needs to do.
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